From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15208 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2010 18:56:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 15200 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2010 18:56:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:56:47 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA1Iujhq006651 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:56:45 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA1IujKu006995; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:56:45 -0400 Received: from parfait.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA1IuhXm023234; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:56:44 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: paawan oza Cc: Michael Snyder , "gdb\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: ChangeLog info missing ? References: <47709.51319.qm@web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CC33CA2.90002@vmware.com> <4CC33F46.3080104@vmware.com> <904677.30619.qm@web112502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <904677.30619.qm@web112502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (paawan oza's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:06:22 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 >>>>> ">" == paawan oza writes: >> but I am confused with outer Changelog because, if you see patch >> mentioned in below mail, which if checked in, will go to '/Changelog' >> in the root directory itself, If someone applies a patch manually he usually has to know which ChangeLog to modify. Ordinarily this isn't hard. >> so in conclusion, appropriately correcting my understanding, each >> directory has changelog and changelog file is only applicable to be >> modified if developer has modified contents of that directory. Yes. If you modify a file, you must modify the nearest ChangeLog. That is, you start in the file's directory and go upwards until you find a ChangeLog file. >> Outer Changelog is never affected. >> right ? Yes. Tom